Herripedia

Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring - a work in progress with no end in sight, but maybe as much as anyone needs to know (eventually)..

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A friend brings me nishin - dried herring - from Japan. Hurrah!

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Good to meet up with the great Mike Smylie once more. Ullapool’s Lugger Fest is a tip top event - and I got to eat one of Mike’s truly excellent kippers. As the cap says Make Herrings Great Again! #kipperman #eatmoreherrings #luggerfest #herringboats

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I was checking on the earliest Gaelic herring poem, as you do and Google’s AI suggested Eoghan Ó Donnghaile’s Welcome is the Herring… what do you know of this @ianduhig?

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Gosh, but I’m looking forward to being at Ullapool’s Lugger Fest this weekend! So many beautiful boats, so many lovers of the herring - including the great Mike Smylie (whose mobile smokehouse kippers I might even get to try this time…). https://t.co/vnzNfDtCcy

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Looking forward to Monday’s event at Taigh Chearsabhagh in Lochmaddy - I think it’s the first time I’ve been introduced in Gaelic! Hurrah! Or maybe, Cabhaig!

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Herrings declare independence. ‘Yes, we talk through our arses,’ they farted, ‘but we’d just like to register our disappointment.’

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Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring: The Highlands & Islands Tour! All right, a couple of gigs, but what gigs! I could be rubbish and you’d still be glad you came! Sat 23 May, 2.45pm, Lugger Fest, Ullapool; Mon 25 May, 7pm, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, North Uist. Hurrah!

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All I want is a proper cup coffee, made in a proper copper coffee pot… Every time I hear (or sing) the song, I think of this coffee pot. And as a kid, before I’d heard the song, every time I thought about Aladdin…

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@BillCorcoran5 @northumbriana His fellow officers bought him a whisky decanter label with his name engraved on it. He was a teetotaller, they got his name wrong, but never forgot they hadn’t held his accent against him and made my dad have elocution lessons.

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@BillCorcoran5 @northumbriana My grandfather was in the 19th Battalion. He was promoted to lieutenant at the Somme and never got over how his fellow officers didn’t hold his Blyth accent against him, but lieutenants didn’t last long: he was shot through the neck within a week and invalided out… contd.

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A tasty-looking rye & spelt loaf if I say so myself… if only I’d pickled some herrings when I had the chance…

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The fishermen of North Shields are being supported through a new fundraising beer which has been created by a local brewery. Anarchy Brewery, based in Heaton, has teamed up with photographer Pete Robinson, who has documented the fishermen's lives in a book titled Harvest From The Deep.
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@GroomB In Byker Revisited there’s a next generation version.

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Just found the list they sent me, back in 1971, to read before I went to university. I have to say I always had a problem with books without stories. I enjoyed Mimesis and Seven Types of Ambiguity…

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Newcastle’s great gift to humanity - the prospects of any day are improved with a kipper for breakfast! Hurrah!

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@ianduhig I love it that the Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business was banned for fear such anarchic comedy would corrupt the youth of Ireland.

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Andy Kershaw! So sad to hear he’s gone. I remember his radio adventure in Mali, he was boarding some boat in Timbuktu and I’d just never heard anything like it. One of the greats.

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@GroomB Ah! The Lewes Arms, 1970, the pints of Harvey’s, Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky and Bob & Marcia’s Young, Gifted & Black alternating on the jukebox… Happy days!

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@Stonefishweirs They don’t come further south than the Bay of Biscay. They were used by/for Romans in making garum etc in Belgium & Britain. The Channel’s the furthest south significant population, so present day Normandy also. A salted curiosity brought back from one of those probably.

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@GroomB And yet he understood, when the magician Mannan’s serving maid told him in Irish Gaelic, ‘A herring was never caught by its belly,’ or maybe, ‘Misha my seven loves to the fish that was never caught for his appetite’, the herrings had been poisoned & he should avoid eating them…